Journeys
The expeditions, reassembled
Every dated label is a diary entry. Read a collector’s labels in order and the voyage comes back: the islands in sequence, the days at each, the specimens from every stop. 173 journeys so far, 1903 to 2003, 63,883 specimens between them.
63 collectors and expeditions3,776 days in the field960,284 km between stops46,480 photographed specimens
173 journeys match
S. Ito
19 islands of the United States · Dec 1935 – May 1936
S. Ito across 19 islands of the United States, December 1935 – May 19363,668 specimens · 32 stops · 178 days · 11,506 km
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr.
85 islands · Nov 1923 – Nov 1924
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. across 85 islands, November 1923 – November 19242,392 specimens · 109 stops · 342 days · 30,927 km
Laurence H. MacDaniels
12 islands · Oct 1926 – Jul 1927
Laurence H. MacDaniels across 12 islands, October 1926 – July 19272,144 specimens · 105 stops · 274 days · 40,135 km
F. Raymond Fosberg
32 islands · Apr – Oct 1934
F. Raymond Fosberg across 32 islands, April – October 19342,503 specimens · 85 stops · 201 days · 23,387 km
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman
21 islands · Feb – Oct 1934
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman across 21 islands, February – October 19341,714 specimens · 56 stops · 248 days · 12,587 km
Ernani Meñez
50 islands · Jun – Sep 1960
Ernani Meñez across 50 islands, June – September 19602,317 specimens · 38 stops · 100 days · 40,857 km
Charles N. Forbes
5 islands of the United States · Jun – Dec 1917
Charles N. Forbes across 5 islands of the United States, June – December 19171,777 specimens · 29 stops · 163 days · 2,815 km
Donald Anderson
22 islands · Aug 1949 – Mar 1950
Donald Anderson across 22 islands, August 1949 – March 19501,249 specimens · 70 stops · 211 days · 151,545 km
Charles N. Forbes
3 islands of the United States · Mar – Jul 1920
Charles N. Forbes in Maui, Oʻahu and Lānaʻi, March – July 19201,158 specimens · 58 stops · 128 days · 1,111 km
Charles N. Forbes
6 islands of the United States · May – Jul 1915
Charles N. Forbes across 6 islands of the United States, May – July 19151,032 specimens · 49 stops · 79 days · 992 km
Otto Degener
5 islands of the United States · Jan – Aug 1928
Otto Degener across 5 islands of the United States, January – August 1928748 specimens · 74 stops · 209 days · 1,716 km
Charles N. Forbes
6 islands of the United States · Jun – Sep 1919
Charles N. Forbes across 6 islands of the United States, June – September 19191,048 specimens · 28 stops · 88 days · 422 km
Carl Skottsberg
6 islands of the United States · Jun – Oct 1938
Carl Skottsberg across 6 islands of the United States, June – October 1938776 specimens · 47 stops · 106 days · 2,822 km
Lucy May Cranwell
6 islands of the United States · May – Oct 1938
Lucy May Cranwell across 6 islands of the United States, May – October 1938734 specimens · 51 stops · 146 days · 3,245 km
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
Oʻahu and Sulu Island · Nov 1952 – Jun 1953
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo in Oʻahu and Sulu Island, November 1952 – June 1953749 specimens · 29 stops · 217 days · 1,689 km
Otto Degener
5 islands of the United States · Mar – Aug 1926
Otto Degener across 5 islands of the United States, March – August 1926607 specimens · 71 stops · 177 days · 3,068 km
Ditlev Due Thaanum
10 islands of the United States · May – Aug 1923
Ditlev Due Thaanum across 10 islands of the United States, May – August 1923918 specimens · 15 stops · 96 days · 11,766 km
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
9 islands · May – Jul 1952
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo across 9 islands, May – July 1952877 specimens · 23 stops · 74 days · 18,027 km
Harold St.John
5 islands · Sep 1930 – May 1931
Harold St.John across 5 islands, September 1930 – May 1931545 specimens · 46 stops · 258 days · 10,194 km
John Colburn Bridwell
Oʻahu and Hawaiʻi Island · Jan – Aug 1917
John Colburn Bridwell in Oʻahu and Hawaiʻi Island, January – August 1917831 specimens · 28 stops · 193 days · 1,209 km
Harold St.John
9 islands · Jun – Nov 1938
Harold St.John across 9 islands, June – November 19381,315 specimens · 9 stops · 172 days · 5,917 km
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Gerrit Parmele Wilder
3 islands of the United States · Jul 1930 – Jun 1931
Gerrit Parmele Wilder in Oʻahu, Laysan and Molokaʻi, July 1930 – June 1931435 specimens · 74 stops · 343 days · 5,041 km
Donald Anderson
Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu · 7–31 Dec 1937
Donald Anderson in Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu, 7–31 December 19371,115 specimens · 8 stops · 25 days · 391 km
Martin L. Grant
3 islands · Jul – Oct 1934
Martin L. Grant in Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi Island and Moorea, July – October 1934572 specimens · 31 stops · 121 days · 9,586 km
How a journey is found
Every specimen with a full date and a known collector is a diary entry. The days are read in order; a gap of more than three weeks ends one journey and starts the next. Days spent where a collector lived most of their life are home, not travel, and are left out.
A journey needs at least five days, forty specimens and two places. Within it, a run of days spent within about ten kilometres is one stop; the stop’s point is the middle of the labels that carry coordinates, or the island’s centre when none do.
Companions are the people whose own labels put them in the same place on the same days. Staff can name a journey, write about it and feature it; everything else here is read straight off the specimens, and is rebuilt as the records improve.